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OLET2109: Global Ethics: Migration and Nation
2023 unit information
This unit examines the global movement of people, animals and things to Australia. Australia's landscapes, peoples, animals, food cultures and diseases have been shaped by migratory flows. This unit equips students working in diverse fields to understand the challenges and uncertainties of a rapidly changing, diverse and complex world.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Gender and Cultural Studies
| Code | OLET2109 |
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| Academic unit | Gender and Cultural Studies |
| Credit points | 2 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate a critical understanding of the central role that migration plays in the Australian national imagination and in myths of nationhood
- LO2. demonstrate critical understanding of migration as a complex process of continual flows, not just of people, but also of objects, technologies, natural products and ideas
- LO3. demonstrate critical understanding of the complexity of Indigenous relations to the idea of migration
- LO4. demonstrate critical understanding of the political, cultural and psychological import of the idea of the border
- LO5. engage at an elementary level with the work of Arjun Appadurai and Mary Douglas
- LO6. critically analyse a contemporary media or textual representation of migration for what it reveals about social and cultural anxieties.
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